If you have a string "Tom&Gerry" you need to use "Tom&Gerry". You may need to "Normalize" the string before you pass it onto the parser.
These are called character entities. They are in the form of &word; There are a couple more that you might run into: < < > > " " Look at the DomWriter example which comes with xerces for an example on how to Normalize a string. -Linda Derezinski -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 7:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: parsing errors Hi, I got your mailing id in the FAQ. I wanted to join the mailing list group, but some error occured. So i am seperately sending you the mail. I am having difficulty in parsing XML document in cases where any element is having value which contains "&" in it. Actually i am receiving information from database and with that info i am creating XML document. It goes fine if no field is having "&", but with this charecter i am not able to parse. Can I get some help from you as to what should I do. Thanking in advance Rakesh Kumar
